Joe Greco developed plenty of fishing experience while living in Edison and running his boat for stripers and fluke in the Raritan Bay area, but he's been retired to Ft. Myers, Florida for 16 years and doing pretty well in a much different fishery with his 21-foot flat-bottomed skiff that can navigate the shallowest inshore waters. The Jersey guy was a hero when he returned to Gulf Star Marina in Ft. Myers Beach with the big cobia in his small boat.

2-3-17 Nice day out there again today,flat calm. Few keepers,few ling,some really jumbo bergals,tomorrow the game plan is we are heading offshore to look for that better life we had yesterday.

The ASMFC meeting in Virginia finally came up with a summer flounder regulation for 2017, but NJ DEP Commissioner Bob Martin is standing fast in insisting on status quo regulations pending completion of a new baseline summer flounder stock assessment which many expect will show that species is in much better condition than outdated statistics presently indicate. com shore blogs fishing or updates on the fluke situation as well as other species involved at the ASMFC meeting.

Commissioner Martin will be testifying at 8 tomorrow morning before the ASMFC meeting in Virginia -- and seems prepared to go out of compliance if necessary. I'll have more about this tomorrow.

with Blackfish and school Cod while the 200 ft wrecks were loaded with giant Silver eels. Greg Majoram Phila, Pa had a limit of Blackfish up to 9 lbs also 3 Cod and 1 Pollock Ernest Grossman Lavellete, NJ had a limit Blackfish up to 7 1 2 pounds 3 Cod and 4 Ling plus a dozed Silver eels up to 20 pounds.